Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions

This may be going too far off the Samba track but have you considered
using WebDAV? All versions of MS connect to this and it's easier to
set-up security by sharing through SSL connection. Apache can
authenticate against any NIS, database or even username password using
htpasswd.

Good Luck,
Marc

On 4/30/07, Steve Franks <stevefranks@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1) Windows "Home" editions (including XP and Vista)
> have support for SMB protocol disabled in Active
> Directory Domain Connections functionality!
> Is this true?
>
> ...

I've been doing this for a long time (just not with Vista), but what
was said is just as true for XP, so I assume nothing further is
disabled in vista.

There's been alot of replies over the weeked, but I don't think any
cuts to the heart of the matter.

* They are just telling you you can't have a "domain" or "active
directory", we actually ran one for a while, and the maintenence cost
to keep the thing happy was one of the factors that made me learn
fbsd.

* When someone said 'peer to peer', I think they were really talking
about a "workgroup" as opposed to a domain - it's not really peer to
peer, afaik, but the analogy works.

1) Just set your 'home' box to a random 'workgroup' in the network
setup - you are not going to use it anyway.

2) Get your smb box running.

3) Map a network drive in windows, and use the IP for the smb box. I
have NEVER had a 'workgroup' function correctly. Boxes all wired on
the same 100-T switch, and they still can't see eachother? Amazing.
Just use the IP adress (i.e. \\192.168.1.xyz\mysmbshare) to map the
drive and you will never have a problem. Oh, and as you are on a fbsd
box, I assume the capitalization of 'mysmbshare' must be correct,
although samba might 'fix' that for you. I just followed the
instructions in the handbook and samba.org, and had things working in
an hour or two.

Steve
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